The Times' journey through Year 175 - May 18

12:27 AM,
May 18, 2013

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Written by

John Andrew Prime

From the purchase in 1913 of the Shreveport Glass and Bottle Company in Cedar Grove, to notification in 1942 that Fair Park footballer and local sailor Doyle Waggoner was a prisoner of the Japanese, to more national exultation on the safe splashdown of astronaut Gordon Cooper in 1963, here are today's front pages for this date from past editions of the Shreveport Times.

Also on this date in past years, read about the search in 1938 for a missing airliner, the sinking in 1943 of a hospital ship by the Japanese, the 1944 shortage of grocery sacks caused by war rationing and revelation in 1945 of the ...